Lars Gravengaard wrote:

>> (my heart=20
>> bleeds for anyone archiving Word documents - to read one in 20 years=20
>> you'd not only have to get working hardware and an operating system=20
>> capable of running the correct version of Office, but a valid LICENSE=20
>> too, and an online validation server for it, so it can be enabled.=20
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> Why are anyone using Word ?
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> Now we have openoffice.org ! And it can even open you=B4s word/excel fi=
les.

Which invalidates all the arguments against Word in the paragraph above...
:)

Besides, you don't need a validation server to get Windows and Word
installed and working. And a license you should have had when you created
the files. And so far, newer versions of the program have been able to re=
ad
older versions of the files, so you don't need Word 2 to read those files
created with Word 2.

I've lost some minor data due to "original program gone", but I haven't
lost any Word data so far -- and I'm using it since Word 5 for DOS.

Gerhard

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